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IMMORTALIZING SHAKESPEARE.

Next Wednesday, the 23d of April, is the three hundred and fifteenth anniversary of the birth of one WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, and the good people of his native town have bethought them that it is high time something were done to keep his memory green, ...

April 19, 1879

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